Yi Scripts
#neography #language #linguistics #orthography #writingsystems
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October 10, 2026 at 4:38 PM
Normally when I learn languages I just don't really teach myself the alphabets, I just start learning words and figure out orthography as I'm going along, so it's interesting to be doing it this way ig.
October 12, 2026 at 9:55 AM
Normally when I learn languages I just don't really teach myself the alphabets, I just start learning words and figure out orthography as I'm going along, so it's interesting to be doing it this way ig.
It's crazy that I stumbled across this thread bc the Gerudo language also inspired my furry conlang, specifically the orthography
And the concept for yours looks so interesting omg
And the concept for yours looks so interesting omg
October 11, 2026 at 9:51 PM
It's crazy that I stumbled across this thread bc the Gerudo language also inspired my furry conlang, specifically the orthography
And the concept for yours looks so interesting omg
And the concept for yours looks so interesting omg
He's closing in on the Nobel Prize in Orthography
October 8, 2026 at 10:18 PM
He's closing in on the Nobel Prize in Orthography
Emirati Arabic word of the day (east coast)
كما كيه
kamā kēh
'how'
ex
kamā kēh ʕayā?
'How (are you) then?'
n.b.
1. This usage is recorded by Aḥmad ʕUbayd (2006, p.44), but it is totally unfamiliar to me!
2. The orthography is unclear.
3. ʕayā < ʕayal < ʕaǧal 'then'
كما كيه
kamā kēh
'how'
ex
kamā kēh ʕayā?
'How (are you) then?'
n.b.
1. This usage is recorded by Aḥmad ʕUbayd (2006, p.44), but it is totally unfamiliar to me!
2. The orthography is unclear.
3. ʕayā < ʕayal < ʕaǧal 'then'
October 10, 2026 at 11:37 AM
Emirati Arabic word of the day (east coast)
كما كيه
kamā kēh
'how'
ex
kamā kēh ʕayā?
'How (are you) then?'
n.b.
1. This usage is recorded by Aḥmad ʕUbayd (2006, p.44), but it is totally unfamiliar to me!
2. The orthography is unclear.
3. ʕayā < ʕayal < ʕaǧal 'then'
كما كيه
kamā kēh
'how'
ex
kamā kēh ʕayā?
'How (are you) then?'
n.b.
1. This usage is recorded by Aḥmad ʕUbayd (2006, p.44), but it is totally unfamiliar to me!
2. The orthography is unclear.
3. ʕayā < ʕayal < ʕaǧal 'then'
"at least that's what we think he announced. Owing to some linguistic inexactitudes and the lack of a recognised orthography he may have just bought a horse."
October 12, 2026 at 1:39 PM
"at least that's what we think he announced. Owing to some linguistic inexactitudes and the lack of a recognised orthography he may have just bought a horse."
I see your pedantry and raise it: in Old English orthography, both eth and thorn were used interchangeably for the voiced and voiceless consonants depending on the scribe, so in the context of the implied time period within the comic this is period-accurate!
October 12, 2026 at 8:15 PM
I see your pedantry and raise it: in Old English orthography, both eth and thorn were used interchangeably for the voiced and voiceless consonants depending on the scribe, so in the context of the implied time period within the comic this is period-accurate!
It’s just an English word with Welsh orthography. It’s not the actual Cymraeg
October 6, 2026 at 11:10 AM
It’s just an English word with Welsh orthography. It’s not the actual Cymraeg
Today in “jokes that only work if you know a cursory amount about 21st-century economists, are aware of the conventions of Turkish orthography, and speak with a non-rhotic accent”:
October 12, 2026 at 1:27 PM
Today in “jokes that only work if you know a cursory amount about 21st-century economists, are aware of the conventions of Turkish orthography, and speak with a non-rhotic accent”:
"mhici" in Irish orthography isn't a PERFECT stand in for "wiki" but it IS as close as it gets. Like, what are we sacrificing here? Using a typically grammatical sound lexically? The compromise they ended up using introduced a whole loan-word-only LETTER.
October 12, 2026 at 9:18 PM
"mhici" in Irish orthography isn't a PERFECT stand in for "wiki" but it IS as close as it gets. Like, what are we sacrificing here? Using a typically grammatical sound lexically? The compromise they ended up using introduced a whole loan-word-only LETTER.
@ncweaver.skerry-tech.com I’m proud to be on Trump’s enemies list. Pardon me, in his orthography it’s probably “ENEMY’S List.”
October 8, 2026 at 5:41 PM
@ncweaver.skerry-tech.com I’m proud to be on Trump’s enemies list. Pardon me, in his orthography it’s probably “ENEMY’S List.”
Derheybn? Mekhtike leybn?
The usual issue reading Yiddish (transcribed Yiddish - I can't read Hebrew letters sadly). 90% is just German apart from the orthography, and then the rest is difficult to incomprohensible. (Even when German-derived, as the latter certainly and I suspect the first is)
The usual issue reading Yiddish (transcribed Yiddish - I can't read Hebrew letters sadly). 90% is just German apart from the orthography, and then the rest is difficult to incomprohensible. (Even when German-derived, as the latter certainly and I suspect the first is)
October 11, 2026 at 11:55 AM
Derheybn? Mekhtike leybn?
The usual issue reading Yiddish (transcribed Yiddish - I can't read Hebrew letters sadly). 90% is just German apart from the orthography, and then the rest is difficult to incomprohensible. (Even when German-derived, as the latter certainly and I suspect the first is)
The usual issue reading Yiddish (transcribed Yiddish - I can't read Hebrew letters sadly). 90% is just German apart from the orthography, and then the rest is difficult to incomprohensible. (Even when German-derived, as the latter certainly and I suspect the first is)
i may not be irish but in polish we have the similar thing of loan words being altered to fit the orthographic rules for words, i'm really not sure how loan words being written as in their original languages is any better than attempts to put it into irish orthography, we hate those in polish
October 12, 2026 at 9:55 PM
i may not be irish but in polish we have the similar thing of loan words being altered to fit the orthographic rules for words, i'm really not sure how loan words being written as in their original languages is any better than attempts to put it into irish orthography, we hate those in polish
I remember the Uyghur case quite well - Uyghur can be written in both Perso-Arabic and Cyrillic, and so we changed the platform to accommodate both orthographies, rather than take a linguistic ideological position ("which orthography is correct / standard / valourised?").
October 12, 2026 at 2:16 AM
I remember the Uyghur case quite well - Uyghur can be written in both Perso-Arabic and Cyrillic, and so we changed the platform to accommodate both orthographies, rather than take a linguistic ideological position ("which orthography is correct / standard / valourised?").
funn:)
i am a sucker for weird orthography, outside of citations i don't think i've ever seen this. i kinda like how it looks.
AND look the wiki for 'brackets' actually has it! but it has it with no citation lol:
i am a sucker for weird orthography, outside of citations i don't think i've ever seen this. i kinda like how it looks.
AND look the wiki for 'brackets' actually has it! but it has it with no citation lol:
October 11, 2026 at 2:47 PM
funn:)
i am a sucker for weird orthography, outside of citations i don't think i've ever seen this. i kinda like how it looks.
AND look the wiki for 'brackets' actually has it! but it has it with no citation lol:
i am a sucker for weird orthography, outside of citations i don't think i've ever seen this. i kinda like how it looks.
AND look the wiki for 'brackets' actually has it! but it has it with no citation lol:
Of course some idiots write it without a trema on the U so I have to mute that orthography too…
October 12, 2026 at 7:43 PM
Of course some idiots write it without a trema on the U so I have to mute that orthography too…
Trump could spell potato “F-U-C-K-Y-U” and the NYT would tell us that it meant we needed a new orthography to understand his genius
October 8, 2026 at 5:18 PM
Trump could spell potato “F-U-C-K-Y-U” and the NYT would tell us that it meant we needed a new orthography to understand his genius
When you're hanging on the "on hold" for fucking DPD so long... that you had time to check the Jozic-Cvijanović Croatian Orthography and check the IPA. Then send the complaint to HAKOM that they are not using the 71-10-01/1-24-2 Croatian Language Law correct language and...
October 12, 2026 at 1:39 PM
When you're hanging on the "on hold" for fucking DPD so long... that you had time to check the Jozic-Cvijanović Croatian Orthography and check the IPA. Then send the complaint to HAKOM that they are not using the 71-10-01/1-24-2 Croatian Language Law correct language and...
in the 1860s they even tried to cyrillicize Polish (badly, it was a Russian based orthography and not one actually suited to Polish), but the attempts failed
October 5, 2026 at 8:14 AM
in the 1860s they even tried to cyrillicize Polish (badly, it was a Russian based orthography and not one actually suited to Polish), but the attempts failed
#31DaysOfGraves
Tag 9: Schrift / Lettering
"zum Andenken seiner schon hier modernden Frau"
"in memory of his wife who is already decomposing here"
Sounds charming these days. Full transcript see ALT
#sugophoto #photography #cemetery #FriedhofSt.Sebastian #Salzburg
Tag 9: Schrift / Lettering
"zum Andenken seiner schon hier modernden Frau"
"in memory of his wife who is already decomposing here"
Sounds charming these days. Full transcript see ALT
#sugophoto #photography #cemetery #FriedhofSt.Sebastian #Salzburg
October 9, 2026 at 9:52 AM
#31DaysOfGraves
Tag 9: Schrift / Lettering
"zum Andenken seiner schon hier modernden Frau"
"in memory of his wife who is already decomposing here"
Sounds charming these days. Full transcript see ALT
#sugophoto #photography #cemetery #FriedhofSt.Sebastian #Salzburg
Tag 9: Schrift / Lettering
"zum Andenken seiner schon hier modernden Frau"
"in memory of his wife who is already decomposing here"
Sounds charming these days. Full transcript see ALT
#sugophoto #photography #cemetery #FriedhofSt.Sebastian #Salzburg
no one should settle for anything less than a brahmic abugida*
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*as long as they agree to periodically reform the orthography to delete consonants that haven't been pronounced in 500 years
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*as long as they agree to periodically reform the orthography to delete consonants that haven't been pronounced in 500 years
October 8, 2026 at 4:39 PM
no one should settle for anything less than a brahmic abugida*
___
*as long as they agree to periodically reform the orthography to delete consonants that haven't been pronounced in 500 years
___
*as long as they agree to periodically reform the orthography to delete consonants that haven't been pronounced in 500 years
It’s an issue for certain. I’ve encountered a few student (not my own) who want *nothing* to do with anything even near religion. Or Zionism. Which is Really quite limiting.
But the alef-beis issue is a new one.
Give them DP camp papers in Polish orthography?
But the alef-beis issue is a new one.
Give them DP camp papers in Polish orthography?
October 8, 2026 at 7:37 PM
It’s an issue for certain. I’ve encountered a few student (not my own) who want *nothing* to do with anything even near religion. Or Zionism. Which is Really quite limiting.
But the alef-beis issue is a new one.
Give them DP camp papers in Polish orthography?
But the alef-beis issue is a new one.
Give them DP camp papers in Polish orthography?
But everybody understands how Xitter is supposed to be pronounced in English/Western orthography*
*Orthoepy, actually. But few know that root
*Orthoepy, actually. But few know that root
October 9, 2026 at 3:36 AM
But everybody understands how Xitter is supposed to be pronounced in English/Western orthography*
*Orthoepy, actually. But few know that root
*Orthoepy, actually. But few know that root
I'll be speaking on November 19 in the morning, this time in Brno about my research on Old Czech orthography in vernacular Bibles 👀
Preliminary programme is out now!
sites.google.com/mail.muni.cz...
See what's in stall for you in the individual workshops and the poster sessions 😮
sites.google.com/mail.muni.cz...
See what's in stall for you in the individual workshops and the poster sessions 😮
BCL2026 - Programme
Preliminary programme
sites.google.com
October 9, 2026 at 7:41 AM
I'll be speaking on November 19 in the morning, this time in Brno about my research on Old Czech orthography in vernacular Bibles 👀
i find transliteration so interesting because it's basically folk phonology and orthography—non-linguists having to think critically about the sounds of their own language, the sounds of the target language, and how to use their language's writing system to bridge the two
October 8, 2026 at 3:17 PM
i find transliteration so interesting because it's basically folk phonology and orthography—non-linguists having to think critically about the sounds of their own language, the sounds of the target language, and how to use their language's writing system to bridge the two